Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Brodney's. A comprehensive ignorance, possibly pardonable, of the works of George Barr McCutcheon prevents comparison herein of his novel and this resultant picture. His curiously exotic imagination has taken a group of characters to a strange island rich in jewel mines. Dying, the owners left a will which would return the treasures to the natives unless their son and daughter married. Fortuitously involved are a beautiful foreign Princess and one Hollingsworth Chase, American adventurer. The walking delegate of the Natives' Union, local No. 1, argues that the matter may best be settled by massacring the whole...
...strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...
...Scandals of 1923. Another rich, variegated, almost overpoweringly sumptuous review-full of jewels, revolvers and pulchritudinous squablets. Costumes, costumes, costumes-choruses, choruses, choruses. Much beauty and little wit-the Tiller girls-Tom Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
...upshot is predictable. The mythical treasure is not found, but the real one, hidden by a Latin jewel robber, is finally stumbled upon...
...whether the enormity of the crime has a great deal to do with the excitement attending its unraveling. In other words, is the dramatizatin of a murder-except for the added increment of horror-really any more enthralling than-as in the case of "Raffles "-the story of a jewel thief? After seeing "Raffles", the Playgoer is inclined to think not. It is the primal situation of hunted and hunter that counts; whether the penalty be loss of life or merely loss of liberty is a minor matter. Of course in this case the author could hardly...